printing a file from cron using cups and/or lpd

[Casey Callendrello]

The answer is pretty simple

>I use CUPS and KPrinter for my usual printing, but believe that I need 
>to use lpr to print from a shell script.  So, I tried lpr.  Here is what 
>  
>
kprinter has a commandline mode that works  much like LPD and should 
solve your problems.  The command switch --nodialog does just what it 
says and makes it act like lpd.  Just open a terminal and run kprinter 
--help and it should explain everything you need.  Your probable 
solution will go something like this:
kprinter -d <printername> --nodialog filename.ps

also note that the --stdin argument will let you print from stdin.

--Casey.